Improvement in cultivators fob vines



UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN MAsoN, or HADDONFIEIJ), New JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN'CULTIVATQRS Foe vlNEs, sto.

` `5in-icitication formingr pas t o-fLelters'Patcnt No. 2,650, dated Mey 28,181.42.

To all Qthom 'it may concer-n Be it known that' I, JOHN MASON, of Had-f doneld, in the county of Gloucester antT'State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful improvementgon all cnltivators betore in' use ,in all its parts, with thc addition ot'hands or vine-litters attached thereto and I d oLhere- `by declare that the-following is -a full, clear,

and exactdescription of the construction and operation ofthe same, referencebeing had to l-,the"annexed drawings, making-part of .this specicat-ion, in which- Figurel isa perspectiveview. Fig. 2-is a` transverseyiew;v Fig. 3 is afroirt view.

. L Letter Aisjthe beamtwoodilt'onr feet long,

' three inches widentithe widestplace,.andtwo -and one-halt'.'inches thick, goes o to a taper,-

pr'pendicular atgthe forwardend, to which is attacheda permanent clevis havin g four holes,

- by which I graduate the single-tree up or down.

Letter B are the wings', into and on which? are inserted the hoes" and hands. They are sharp at the forward end-which is covered with an iron plate about sixv inches, fastened by rivets passing through thom'aud the end 'ot' the I' wings', which-secures the :en'd tromspl-itting. They are two and one-.half feet-lon g, two inches .thick-,and twoan'donefhalf inches wide. -They "aremadue'fast to the'bea-m onthjennder side byv v' ftwtys'icrwibolts passing .through the beam opposite each other, through the forward ends of t-hewings,and-.`throngh a coupling-plete off-iron i under.' the `-end ofthe wings, and made'permai `nent byhnittsfon the end of the screws; so the- .wings play olf-anden between thel beam and ,coupling-'plate,flike a. hinge. They are graduated wide 4amd-narrow 4,by two circular bars ,of

wood,'letter Cwhichfare halt. :is thick aspthe the wingsinto' .which they are inserted by ten? ons," 'the shonlder of.y one."beingush with the top side of fone "wing andthe shoulder of the-l4 y 'other being iiushw'ith the:- underaLSide of the other wing.- They exactly lmatch and play on eachother nd under. .the"'en`d" o f the bram,

IetterA, behindthe handles, and-are made fast by ascrcw passingthrongh them and the end ofthe beam, and screwed ,on the-,top of the Y beam 'by e` handout. There are holes through thesebars to correspond 'with that in tlie"e|id4 of the beam, so asto givethew'fngstliree dit- Vferent wid ths-' viz., two, tw'o and one-hall', and i three feet.- i y l Letter l) arc'the handles. They standon'an ang-le with the beam otabont fort yl--lire degl ces,

and are made fast to it by a strong iron rivet passing through them and thebeam. They then pass down to the ground througha socket in the after part of the main iron E, which is principally cast-iron, and isabont nineinches deep from the beam, to i'which it is made fast', down to the' ground on the two shares which enter the ground on a parallel with the'nose.

Both shares and nose operate something likeV a small lplow. l `From the end of the nose the iron .commences tol rise very gradually at tirst, and continues to do so, with a littleincrease of rise, until itgets three and one-halfinehes above where Ait enters the ground, when :ity rises 4abrupt-ly, and. so continues nntil'about twoV inches tot'y the beam, where it takes a turn for- 'ward, which brings it to thebeam. Itis sharp from the end of the noseabout three inchesup, where it begins to round, and is a perfect smooth -front all the wayupj'tdthe4bealn, where it is 'about two inches wide',andsocontinnes' to widen down to the part th atentersthe `earth,

."`and therewith an increasto th'slres, and

enters the'castingahout two inches above a p arallel'with the nose'andA shares, and comin-i ,vues-so nearly to the' socket, into whichthe *handles are inserted, where it falls-on a par.

-lel' with ,the nose and sharesQ Between 4where the wrought enters thc-cast iron an,d the handle-socket ,is about sixteen inches. Close to where the wrou hit enters the :castiron there 'isa hole* pnnche through the wrought large enough 'to receive' atve-eigh thsinch squareiron bolt.- vThis bolt passes up through-the concave of the-cast-irou, and so up through thebeaim where it is-A madepermji- 'nentby'a screw and mit onthe end'.

' Letter G are the'hoevs',whic h may be made .toA whichthey Y .about three inches wide at'the bottom. In the forwardgpart ot` theinside Aisa `little colter vorj of cast or` wrought iron, according'to the soil. are tol be applied. -They are'l supporter about one-half inch wide, from which proceeds a' wing outward and concave, so that the bottom turns out. nearly parallel with the ground, about as near as a man standing would hold a hoe, while their side is something like arnold-board. The hoes stand inthe two wings' B`so that when the two wings are spread three feet the inside of4 the forward hoe is parellelv with the outside ofthe main iron. The second hoe, the' insiderof which is parallel with the outside of the forward hoe, and so on to the last. The re Imay be three or four on `a side,

according,r to the bigness of the dresser. The hoes are inserted into the wings by a square shank about three-fourths of an inchv square,

l if lwhich passes` up to within abouta halfan inch of the to'pofl the wings, then furnished by Y' i screws, whichI come through the topl of the wings', and madevfast by a nut on the screw.'4 Letter H ar'e tliehands or vine-litters.. They are of -wroutht-iron,` and are made fast tof'the wings on the outside by a screw passing' through e them and the wingshorizontally,and screwed .by anut on theinside otthe wings. The wings are ybeveled ont-he outside, which throw they `lower part o'fvtlle nands outward. From. the

`top offthe"wingsftlowuward 'the'hands are three-fourths of'yan inch wide'and one-fourth` fof an inch thick'.' They are let into the woodabout'their thickness-to give them stability.l

VFrom the wings down to the point they have a gradual turn, so that the point entersthe ground `as though inserted square with the heath. They stamt so that on afstraight line i `frouitlie bottom to `where they are `made fastl .ward the hill.

way. Each hand is setso as topreced'e the hoeaboutrfour inches.

The operations ot' my invention areas Vi'ol-V lows: The main iron enters the ground from three to tive inches deep, according to pleas-- ure, vabove which it isso smooth as'not to cut the vines that may lie across the wayu This gives the vines-a raise. upf The tirst pair of 'hands then takes them, the second, third, 87e. yAt' the saine ,time the hands have the vines up the hoes are cultivarint,` the ground, and are constantly giving the earth atendency to- The greatest'benet to be derived from this instrument is incultivating sweet and round potatoes. f f j What I claim as my invention, and de s'ire to secure ltv L'etters'Patent, is- Thefh-ands: They are entirely a new invention, and their operation is as d'escri'bed in this sp.ecitcation;, and yforasmuch as theyl nlay be usefully applied to other instruments I wishl ll'secured. y'

y J-oHNlMAsoN.

.' Witnesses:v SAMUELWpMAsoN,

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